CVE-2020-8285

curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

CVSS 3.1

7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-674, CWE-787

Published

2020-12-14

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• apple:mac_os_x
• apple:macos
• debian:debian_linux
• fedoraproject:fedora
• fujitsu:m10-1_firmware
• fujitsu:m10-4_firmware
• fujitsu:m10-4s_firmware
• fujitsu:m12-1_firmware
• fujitsu:m12-2_firmware
• fujitsu:m12-2s_firmware
• haxx:libcurl
• netapp:clustered_data_ontap
• netapp:hci_bootstrap_os
• netapp:hci_management_node
• netapp:hci_storage_node_firmware
• netapp:solidfire
• oracle:communications_billing_and_revenue_management
• oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy
• oracle:essbase
• oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools
• siemens:sinec_infrastructure_network_services
• splunk:universal_forwarder

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
• https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
• https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255
• https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844

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